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Add MS 6734
- Record Id:
- 032-003442789
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003442789
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100075949233.0x000518
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 6734
- Title:
- Architectural plans and elevations
- Scope & Content:
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In large folio, ff. 143, containing architectural plans and elevations, by Mr. Kerrich, viz.
1. A series of plans illustrative of the formation of the tracery in church windows, of various patterns, the examples taken from English buildings. ff. 1-14.
2. A series of plans illustrative of the insertion of tracery in circles or quatrefoils etc. in windows, the examples taken from the churches of Exeter, Lincoln, Ely, Chesterton and Burwell. ff. 15-30.
3. A series of plans illustrative of vaulting, and the formation of arches. ff. 31b-41.
4. Attempts to exhibit the formation of Norman and Saxon mouldings on mathematical principles. ff. 42-48.
5. Sections, elevations, and plans, of Milton window, the great arch on the West side of St. Giles’s, Cambridge, Ely Cathedral, the church of Batalha, in Portugal, and the cathedral of Milan. ff. 44-53.
6. Plans of arches, on geometrical principles, chiefly in illustration of the influence of the figure called ‘Vesica Piscis’ upon the architecture of the Middle Ages. ff. 54-64.
7. A series of sections, elevations, and plans of portions of various churches, etc. illustrative of the influence of ‘Vesica Piscis.’ ff. 65-131.
8. A series of pen and ink, and pencil drawings, illustrative of perspective, etc. The chief of these are: the interior of a gothic church, with figures, the interior of a small Saxon church, and a view of Captain Paulet’s house, at Keninghall. ff. 132-143. The more important buildings mentioned are: The cathedral of Gloucester, as Mr. Kerrich conceived it was originally formed. f. 90. Chester. f. 94. Salisbury. ff. 91b, 118b. Westminster. f. 97. Peterborough. f. 97. Canterbury. f. 141. Durham, f. 129, and Milan. f. 121b. The churches of:Thwaite. f. 105. Heckingham. Ibid. Hales. f. 106. St. Sepulchre’s, Cambridge. f. 107. Frenze, county Norfolk. f. 109b. Great Wilbraham. f. 111. Little Maplestead. f. 117. Stuntney. f. 117b. Abingdon. f. 130b. Hadstock. Ibid. Littlebury, etc. f. 137. The chapel of St. George, Windsor. f. 98. Stourbridge. ff. 100b, 116. Chaldgrave. f. 102. St. Joseph’s, Glastonbury. f. 124. King’s College, Cambridge, etc. f. 135b.
Most of these drawings are engraved and described in the Archæologia, vol. XIX, pp. 353-368, plates XX-XXXV.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003442789
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003442789
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume (143 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1700
- End Date:
- 1899
- Date Range:
- [18th century-19th century]
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- A large folio
- Custodial History:
- Add MS 6728 to Add MS 6776, inclusive, were bequeathed by Rev. Thomas Kerrich, Keeper of the Public Library, Cambridge, in 1828
- Publications:
- Archaeologia, or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, volume 19, (1821)
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- This catalogue description has been transcribed from the original [18th-19th-century] handwritten Catalogue of Additional Manuscripts and may contain inaccuracies. The handwritten catalogue is available in the Manuscripts Reading Room.